From Athens- Friday Thoughs

Buc I was working in Birmingham when the Iron Bowl was played every year there

Short nine iron from Tuscaloosa and haul from the Plains. Keith Jackson. pulling a basket of ribs

From Dreamland BQ up into the pressbox. Dreamland national advertising for a slab of ribs

Talk about roi..... no question. Game would fair better played on campus. Once again follow the

Money. Pass the pepper and celery please. Go Dawgs

Keith Jackson, grew up just outside Carrollton, Georgia, spot in the road, Roopville, Georgia. Proud Marine. Keith also liked to spend time in Winder, Georgia, he was from the "dirt". I use that work "dirt" sometmes, has a lot of meaning to some of us older folks. Basically shows that we worked for what we got. Keith's special phrase . . . . "Whoa Nellie".

Want to see what Keith Jackson was made of . . . . watch the video below, and close to the end, listen to what he had to say to the "Bear".

Larry Munson, Keith Jackson and others. Good ole Georgia folks. I said that.

Keith and Larry gave meaning to the words .....gentleman's .....gentleman. Blessed to have enjoyed

Both...... thanks Buc for the background on KJ. Go Dawgs

Thank you for the reminder yd1.

Growl start a Growl Monday Edition talk if u have time hope all is well.

Nice weather headed this way thanks God I was scared Noah was own his way back!!!!!

Buc, sorry it took me so long to reply - long weekend for me . . . really long one.

I don't think we'll be competitive simply because when we have been competitive, we've had a great QB. Notice I'm not saying "elite" QB, but great college football QB. Greene, Shockley, Stafford, Murray. JTIII was okay, but he was "filler". Cox was above average, but we were biding our time waiting for Murray. HM did a really good job last year - like I said, he honestly didn't cost us any games (I'm counting the SC game against whoever in our coaching ranks decided not to call 4 runs in a row to the best RB in football).

But as of right now, not one of our QBs has been capable of at least getting the NOD over the other two?!

I refuse to believe that Faton Bauta is being somehow "picked on" or "discriminated against" because they are afraid he might make the coaches look good. Same for the other two guys. The only rational explanation is that not one of those guys has demonstrated he is "THE" guy. Maybe they are all so great that the coaches just can't make up their minds, but that stretches my belief, since three great QBs at once is a little much. To me, this means we have 3 "fillers" back there, and all the buzz about the kid in Washington is because the coaches know he's their next chance to have a great QB.

Then, I go back to when Stafford was a freshman, and Murray. Nothing against any of our great QBs, but as freshmen they all made in-game decisions that cost us games. That's why I just don't see 2016 suddenly being a great year either.

Don't get me wrong - a great offensive line can win games - so can a great defense, and I recognize that we either have both or we are close. But until our coaches can at least tell us that we have "that" guy, I'm not optimistic at all. Unless we get a great QB and FAST, I see us losing to 'Bama, Tennessee, Florida and Abuurn this fall. Maybe Tech, too.

The following year, I expect either a freshman QB or more "filler" until he's up to speed (and that is assuming the kid in Washington turns out to be great).

Buc, I don't like being negative, you know that. I'm just trying to figure out what is going to suddenly happen that is going to put a signal caller in the game for us before 2017 who knows how to play against SEC defenses. In the past I felt like I could do that.